Anthony Michael Hall Quotes
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
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We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
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Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
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Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
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Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
